The Delta independent., 1887-01-04

Colorado Springs.
A meeting of the Gunnison County
Snow-shoe Club has been called to meet at
Gunnison on the 3lst.
There is dead lock in Denver be-
tween the Alderman and Board of Super
visors over the appropriations.
A fire in the Gem drug store in
Pueblo on Thursday caused damage to the
extent Of =, 500. fully insured.
Ninety men were sent from Denver
to Red Clin Monday to work on the Denver
& Rio Grande near that place.
VILLAIN Staelly. railroad employe.
was drowned In the Grand, few miles
above Glenwood Springs, las: week.
The bank clearlngs at Denver last
week were q, 800, ,6l5, gain Of a5 per cent.
over those Of the corresponding week In last
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Florence are furnish
ing amusement for the theater-going peo-
pie at the Tabor Grand In Denver this
week.
The citizens of Aspen feel very de-
spondent over the apex decision. but an
nounce their determination to fight that
theory to the death.
The announcement Of the death of
Gen. Logan caused universal grief all over
the State. A number of towns will hold
memorial services.
Rosa Sarbrugg. q laundress, commit
ss~J Cnr ,lI
form. She left note saying she had no
friends In the world.
The Central Presbyterian church. of
Denver, have extended a call to Rev. DR..
Nichols, of Binghampton, New York, at
salary Of q, 900 year.
Hugh McKenna fell into n Stag pot
at the American Smelter at Leadvillc last
week and died few days nfterward after
suffering terrible agony.
The Denver newsboys were given an
elegant dinner on Christmas, and in the af-
,crnoon the Nescs gave them all tickets to
the matinee at the Opera House.
Tho Union Stock Yards of Denver
did much larger business last year than
ever before, having handled 1,GOi more cars
Of cattle, sheep and hogs than in 1855.
The following is the product of the
Boston and Colorado Works tArgo) for
1856 rs near as can be approximated: gold,
ss2T 800; silver, sa,44o,sS5; copper, ,silS, l4S;
total s3,ssl 900.
The six indictments which remained
against Charles II. Scott, the county clerk
OF Arapahoe, have been nolled by the pros
ecuting attorney, and Mr.. Scott is now sup
posed to be vindicated.
According to the Rocky Mountain
News there were 100 buildings commenced
In Denver last year at an estimated cost of
e, OK, col. This is n greater sum than has
been spent In any year since 1852.
The best dairy butter, that which
may be termed gilt-edge, commands trife
more in the Denver market than 1t has be-
fore for many years. The larger number of
retail buyers are paying forty-tive cents.
The Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany produced OIL, 800 tonsof coal and 1la-
100 tons Of coke during 1886. They also
manufactured S, $50 kegs ofnails, s,s7a tons
$3.50 kegs Of railroad spikes.
Junction Precinct, q small settle
ment seven miles south Of and tributary to
the town Of Evergreen, raised the past sea-
son $50 tons Of potatoes. This enterpris-
Ing little town produces great quantities of
lumber and this year sent 10000 feet of
lumber to the Denver market
Travellers are commencing to arrive
in Leadville from points over the range on
snow shoes. In places In the mountains the
snow Is four and Ave feet deep on level
where it has not drifted at all. In such
places as Il has drifted, however, It is any
where from ten to 100 feet deep.
President jackson, of the Denver 4
Rio Grande, is reported to have said that
his company would Immediately build the
extension from Red Cliff TO Aspen via Glen
wood, and that the work will be pushed
with all possible speed. He sets the time
for reaching the Springs In the early partof
June.
The Mcars' toll road system in the
San Juan covers 200 miles Of road and has
cost about e4o0,o 900, annual repairs sl5y0o0,
not counting washouts. Ore pays u toll of
80 cents per ton the average, other freight
q per ton. The roads arc kept open rs long
a. possible, many routes all winter. The
Ouray- -Silvcrton road Is closed about 90 days
generally. Much Of the freighting Is done
by S,r. Mears who has 100 draught mules.
The freightlng ON the east side Of the San
Juan mountain IL chIetiy done by Mears, the
ysHt aide by Dave Weed Mine, staok and